A recent study has uncovered an extraordinary survival story—night lizards, small reptiles that still inhabit parts of North ...

What you need to know first — Why did some animals survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event while others got wiped off the face of the Earth?

Explore the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction and Earth's four other mass extinction events, including the possibility that we've entered a new one, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years. But so far, not a single trace of dinosaur ...

However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history. That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying .

After living for millions of years, the dinosaurs faced a pretty disastrous end when a HUGE meteor hit Earth. Now, all these ...

The scientists analysed samples of the rock layer that marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. ... in which around 70 percent of all animal species became extinct.

At least five times, a catastrophe has killed off the vast majority of Earth’s species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

While Tanis is 2,000 miles from the Chicxulub impact, seismic waves created a deposit of minerals known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. It is about four feet thick and corresponds to the event.